What kids really do on Musical.ly

PaymoneyWubby · 5.1M views · 2018-07-02 · 12:28

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Overview

A commentary video by YouTuber PaymoneyWubby reacting to children's content on the Musical.ly app, which became TikTok. It highlights the child-safety concerns of young kids dancing on a public social platform.

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Cited as an outsider's critical look at Musical.ly and TikTok and the child-safety problems of video platforms.

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Internet culture & memes Futurism & technology and society Psychology & human behavior

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hn_check · 2020-08 · Reference
"Everyone calls me stupid every time I bring up the fact that Twitter had a better TikTok before TikTok in Vine" The view that "Vine was tiktok before tiktok" is extremely common. Vine was very popular, was a trend beachhead, but it just wasn't something Twitter was really interested in so they shanked it. Speaking of which, I didn't realize that musical.ly morphed into TikTok. I knew musical.ly only from Paymoneywubby - [VIDEO]
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lm28469 · 2019-07 · Criticism
Every time I read "tiktok" I have flashbacks from one of paymoneywubby's video [0]. This platform is at the very least extremely disturbing. It's mild but I'd tag it as NSFW. [0] [VIDEO]
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css · 2019-02 · Reference
> Enter “twister girl” and autocomplete suggests “little girl twister in skirt” Jesus… Credit where credit is due, I learned about this from MattsWhatItIs: [LINK] Which is similar to the recent videos PayMoneyWubby has been exposing: [VIDEO] and [LINK] It reminds me of a darker version of [LINK] .
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